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 Looking to impress your in-laws? Want to dazzle your siblings before you start carving the turkey? While it's great to gather the family and give thanks this time of year, it's especially nice to do so in a home that's decorated with a little seasonal flare.  Read More

If you’re interested in setting your home up for maximum efficiency and comfort throughout the winter, now is the time to start thinking about it and planning ahead. It’s easy enough to make sure that your home is ready for winter, but it’s a lot less ideal to start working on this endeavor after the cold weather has already set in. Read More

During this time of year, everybody's home is on display. As fall colors overtake the trees around us, our homes become resting points for wandering eyes attempting to take it all in. Read More

Nature often provides the best materials and resources for decorating, building, and nourishment. While the marvel of human ingenuity has certainly produced remarkable innovations with which people have built societies and created expressions of art and beauty, it is when we make the most of the natural world that we expose the greatest beauty. Nature provides us with a glorious color palate, warm and inviting building materials, and the tastiest, most nutritious sources of sustenance. The sky gives us a perfect blue, the soil a place to grow succulent produce, and the maple tree gives us sweet sap to turn to syrup.  Read More

As we move into the fall season, one thing that’s surely on everybody’s mind is having enough light. Summertime gives us a few months of solar soaking to enjoy, so it can be something of a shock to the system as we begin to spend more time indoors throughout the colder seasons.  Read More

While many people probably become forlorn and lost at the thought of summer’s end, autumn marks something of a delight for anyone who enjoys a buffet of color. As we near the end of August, it means that fall is just waiting to pounce onto the scene here in the Pacific Northwest, and that means Mother Nature is about to take a paintbrush of her own and smatter the hillsides of the Cascade mountains with a fresh batch of color.
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Obviously, we’re big believers in the power of paint in granting things new life. With that in mind, what you call garbage might simply be in the first developmental stage of its domestic life in your home. Your discarded items are just a few brush strokes away from becoming domestic homes themselves to some of the most important accoutrements in the household. Plants provide us with oxygen to breath, shade to sit in, and food to eat. Give your plants more places to soak up the sun and water they need by transforming these every items into unique planters: Read More

It can be hard to get rid of older, worn pieces of furniture. They grow on us emotionally so that we become attached, and before you know it everybody who comes into your home comments on the coffee table covered in scuff marks from your boots. On the other hand, new furniture can be expensive to buy and hard to match to your home. Here’s some advice for making an old coffee table, cabinet, or any other wood piece look like a leather-finished, high-end luxury item. Read More

Style is hard to predict in the 21st century. While we used to sort cultural trends by decades, it seems as though generational preferences change almost hourly now. Even as retro looks and vintage clothing are revived, new trends emerge constantly to replace them. Read More

Functionality is important, but sometimes we just want to spruce things up a bit around the house, for the sake of revitalizing the look of the home. Home improvement doesn’t always mean fixing broken items or improving the efficiency of a utility, sometimes we need to make a change simply to shake things up a bit and give our eye something new to look at.
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